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(2) Seaching for disease in its early stages and curing
it quickly.
(3) Diminishing the risk of catching disease.
(4) Improving environment.
1. BUILDING UP THE BODY TO RESIST ATTACKS
OF DISEASE.
Feeding of School Children.
The main work of the Council under this head is the
feeding of school children. It is impossible for any person
to be healthy unless good and regular feeding is provided.
This was recognised in respect of school children by voluntary
agencies during the last 20 years of the nineteenth century,
when funds were raised in several of the larger cities
for the feeding of poor and ill-nourished children at school.
To-day the feeding of school children in Willesden is carried
on under the Education (Provision of Meals) Acts, 1906 and
1914.
At the beginning of the year 1916 there were seven
centres at which school children received meals. Five were
under the direct control of the Education Committee, one
was a centre controlled by a voluntary agency, and one was
a coffee shop.
Owing to considerable reduction in the number of children
fed, two of the feeding centres under the direct control
of the Education Committee were closed on the 18th April,
1916.
The dietaries in use during the year 1916 were the same
as those set out in the Annual Report for 1915, pages 93 and
94. These dietaries each provide a good two course dinner.
In addition, special meals consisting of half-a-pint of milk,
were supplied at the schools at 11 a.m. daily except